A Guide To Ethical Living

A Guide To Ethical Living

Ethical living is the development of the right attitude that influences ideas and decision making processes in accordance with ethics and moral values. Ethical living is particularly concerned with maintaining the right principles in regard to environmental cases, consumerism, and animal welfare. Presently it is more of a personal initiative rather than an organized social movement. Ethical living is a development of sustainable living where an individual starts by taking a series of small lifestyle changes with the aim of reducing their general effect on the environment. Deciding to start living ethically is as easy as beginning to switch off electric lights or plugging off electrical appliances like the television when leaving a room, recycling products that do not decompose like paper bags, using public means of transport rather than personal vehicles, and even using environment friendly modes of transport for example a bicycle. It may also involve buying local organic produce and even going a step further to re-use waste water. With the popularity of ethical living gaining momentum, various environmental movements propose that the duty of ethical practice be enforced on large businesses which include production firms and multinational corporations. They base their argument on the fact that individual lifestyle changes have less significant effects to the environment than changes caused by the large corporations and industries if they decide to operate ethically.

In general terms an individual or a multinational corporation which decides to live or operate ethically needs not to incur any extra monetary cost or employ any form of extra physical effort to practice it. Living or practicing an environment-friendly activity or in other terms living ethically should be encouraged and both governmental and voluntary groups should come up with ways of educating and advising the society on how and why they should practice the virtue of ethical living. The following is an ethical living action plan whose ideas and recommendations, if adhered to, will make ethical living a reality.

• A good population if not all people should learn and practice vegetarianism. From health statistics, it is estimated that sixty to seventy percent of almost all diseases and approximately a third of most cancers are connected to diet. This notion and the wish to live ethically have attracted different individuals to vegetarianism although others have diverse reasons to be vegetarians. Most of the individuals are perceived to be vegetarians so as to live longer or sustain healthy lives and perhaps perform their part in reducing pollution. Others make the move with the wish to protect the Earth’s natural resources while others are morally opposed to consuming animals. Scientific analyses have proved numerous advantages linked to a plant based diet plan and in fact, advice the majority of the population to eat calories through fruits, vegetables and grain products. They continue to argue that vegetarians have very low chances of contracting long term degenerative diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and particular kinds of cancer which include; colon, breast, lung and stomach cancer. A good number of vegetarians have acknowledged the destruction the meat business is bringing to our environment. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approximately 174,000 miles of contaminated rivers come from chemicals and animal waste products from factories. Livestock farming activities that that also pollute the environment include waste from enclosed animal activities and pesticide spraying. Another advantage of people going vegetarians is that all the grain generated and meant to feed animals for slaughter is going to benefit the vast population of human beings and in so doing save them the cost treating the many diseases associated with animal products. Finally the population is going to save a considerable amount of money spent on treating diseases resulting from food borne illnesses resulting from the consumption of food reach in proteins like fish, poultry and meat. In essence vegetarianism is a vital practice to individuals who wish to live ethically.
• Another strategy in achieving ethical living is by coming up with successful home based business. Ordinary individuals who have never thought of becoming entrepreneurs are highly advised to use a successful home based business to be able to if possible compete with the chief executive officers in the leading companies and other multi-millionaires. The first role to play in building a successive home based business is opting for a legitimate home based business to start with and come up with an attainable competitive advantage. For instance learning new skills and being able to access upper edge technologies and systems at your reach for example the web site for marketing will be advantageous. An individual with the tools for doing business, systems and technology in place, he or she can comfortably copy and master the marketing strategies of all successful businessmen globally and in fact come up with other methods of transacting busi.............